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I had big, bold plans for the start of 2015. A few days in, it became clear that those plans, like so many before them, would not just need to be put off until conditions improved, but completely scrapped.

Though that is one of the toughest ways for plans to go, as it’s turned out a few times in my life now, the new plans can be unimaginably better than the original plans dared to dream. Once they start to come together, the angst becomes a thing of the past.

There are some things I am bad at that I’ve decided to just let be, for now, while I work on other things I don’t do well with. Deciding decisively, committing without overcommitting, knowing how far and when and how to push myself so as to neither exceed nor squander my abilities.

Finishing projects with the same gusto I start them with. Being efficacious and gracious and a little audacious and not too loquacious when it comes to (or starts to get close to) finishing bigger things than projects.

Remembering that not knowing what I want to come next doesn’t mean I have to time warp what I wanted so much, and now have. Believing that there’s plenty more where that came from.

I started this year like a cold engine. The work that still has to be put in to make sure every day starts better than that – just as well as the last – and keeps on humming, means changes in my life that aren’t ones I intended to make, ever. Finding ways to embrace them is the biggest one of all.